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RAND report calls on policymakers to improve long-term services for dementia sufferers and caregivers, the role of intellectual stimulation in holding off Alzheimer's, and Alzheimer's research spurs Las Vegas' growing medical research industry (read more).

The need to define "dementia" to cure it, more on the power of tech to transform dementia care, George Vradenburg talks about proposed Alzheimer's "megafund", and Georgetown University puts a focus on recruiting diverse participants for Alzheimer's medical trial (read more).

British Prime Minster David Cameron makes Alzheimer's a priority, the need to recruit minorities in the A4 clinical trials, and an online Alzheimer's screening test raises questions about the efficacy of early diagnosis (read more).

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Why 2020?

USAgainstAlzheimer’s has retained its goal of stopping Alzheimer’s by 2020 rather than endorsing the goal of the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease that calls for preventing and effectively treating the disease by 2025. While we support the national plan and its goals, we believe, as most every family touched by Alzheimer’s disease believes, that preventing and effectively treating Alzheimer's by 2025 is simply too long a wait for concrete progress. There are promising avenues of drug discovery and development that will, if successful, deliver a means of slowing or deferring Alzheimer's symptoms by 2020. By voicing the urgency felt by so many families, we will pressure researchers and industry to do all in their power to make that happen.